Pl. 99 Antique Print of American Outfits (objects) Racinet, 'circa 1880'

1880 · Views & Engravings

Pl. 99 Antique Print of American Outfits (objects) Racinet, 'circa 1880'

Name: Pl. 99 Antique Print of American Outfits (objects) Racinet, 'circa 1880'
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12638-1-99
Price: 110 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1880
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 22 × 19.5 cm (8.7 × 7.7 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning, blank verso. Minor wear, please study image carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BG-12638-1-99

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

A plate of American peoples, a chromolithograph from Albert Racinet's Le Costume Historique, published in Paris by Firmin Didot about 1880, lettered "America, Amérique, America" across the top and numbered 99 at the upper right. The lithographer's credit "Brandin lith." is at the lower left.

The sheet is composed as a catalog of subjects in two bands. At the top is a hammock of woven fiber with a sleeping figure, above a long carved club or paddle and a feathered belt. Below are five portrait heads, three seen in profile, with wooden or shell discs through the lips and ears and with cropped hair, and a shrunken head with colored fiber cords. A large feather headdress sits in the lower left, with a rattle or gourd and bundled spears and arrows in the center. At the lower right a woman stands in water carrying a child on her back, with two more children beside her, and a man stands near the spears holding an arrow. The colors are bright and flat, with gold and green in the borders of the panels.

Racinet's work was a large survey of dress and ornament through the ages, and the American plates present native dress and objects in the manner of the 1880s.

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